A DUP angrily complained after his party were branded ‘dinosaurs’ in the Queen’s Speech debate.

Theresa May has been scrambling for ten days to secure a deal with the hardline Northern Irish party in an effort to cling on to her job.

And Green MP Caroline Lucas questioned whether they had influenced the environment apparently being ignored in the Queen's Speech.

DUP MP Jeffrey Donaldson said Lucas didn't understand the party's environment policy, and should read their manifesto to find out more.

The words "climate" and "environment" do not appear anywhere in the DUP manfiesto.

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The Green co-leader asked the Prime Minister why, with eight Brexit bills in the speech, none of them related to the environment.

She asked: “Is her failure to propose a Brexit bill on the greatest challenge that we face because she simply doesn’t care about the environment and climate change, or because she’s been influenced by the DUP dinosaurs who sit beside me and who don’t want to take that kind of leadership in the future?”

The Prime Minister started to respond, saying she was “very conscious” that there is a great deal of EU law that pertains to environmental matters.